The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-11


day Mr.. Cleveland was inaugurated. Not
man who he had appointed had de-
faulted, and it could not be shown.that
dollar had been lost. The party had given
the country clean handed administration,
honest in its dealings with the people.
The party had honestly sought to reform
the taxes, and would continue its efforts.
Hon. VIC. P. Breckenridge, Congress.
man from the Ashland District. who will
probably be the next chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, in response
to repeated calls, in his remarks said
This convention has the opportunity to
put Kentucky at the head Of the Demo-
cratic column if it has the conservatism,
the pruuence, the firmness and the
wisdom, and he who to-day I'M
dertakes to speak from this platform
TO this convention should speak with
q sense of that responsibility upon him.
[Applause,1 We are part of the American
Democracy; we are out of the clouds of the
war; we are away from the sectional dis
putes; we are the first convention to lay
down platform for the broad National
campaign; and can Kentucky, under Car
Isle, be like she was under Clay, and have
her words repeated approvedly all over
America?
''This very afternoon in Boston there are
expectant ears waiting for what Kentucky
will say, praying that her deliverances,
while they shall be clear and broad, shall
be prudent and wise. Applause.1 We
have an opportunity to do something. The
South, in her broadcast sense-that South
which passed through the long years of
preparation, and Is now coming
more and more to the front
that South has an opportunity
lucky to do something for the country.
Let US still those things about which we
may not all agree; let us find some COM
mon ground to stand upon that shall be
National ground. Applause.l Let US re-
member that we are one wing, one part OF
the great National party that stretches
from the bleak shores of Massachusetts, to
where the placid waters OF the blue Pacific
kiss the golden shores of California, and
let rs get higher than the provincialism of
a single State or neighborhood. PRO
longed applause.
And about one other matter 1 want to
express one thought. = may be that
Grover Cleveland is not all that every
Democrat would have him to be, but he is
better than the best Republican who ever
lived. [Applause.l He may not be
our choice among the Democrats OF
America, but he is better than any
mate, and am for him as the best we can
do; and l want to say for him, being
under no obligation to him other than that
which every other good citizen is under
having no grievance against the admins
ton, but as free man and representa-
tive of free men, only willing to speak my
honest sentiments, that since America has
had Presidents, she has not had a more
honest, Drawer or cleaner man than Grover
Cleveland. ICheers.
Senator James B. Beck was introduced
in answer to prolonged call. He
said: 1--WE have but one hope for
success in the future, and that is in stand
ing by each other and making long pull,
a strong pull and pull all together. The
country has come from the darkness of
misrule. The peoples money has been
squandered and corruption has been COM
mon. We had given, up to 1885,
il. There have been rings upon rings,
the gigantic whisky ring reaching almost
to the doors of the White House. But we
have passed from those days to the light of
Democratic honesty. We have not done
all that we should have done, but every
step taken has been in the right direction.
Whatever may be SAID of this administra-
ton, no man can impeach its integrity and
patriotism. Grover Clevelands worst en-
envy can not say that any corrupt man un-
der him would remain in Office day. Let
leader"
Addresses were also made by MIR. A.. G.
Smith, Lieutenant-Governor of Indiana;
DR.. Z. ID. Standiford and others OF Louis
vile. After the speaking the band struck
up and number OF ladies walked into the
convention. Behind them came a nurse
bearing handsome baby. One OF the
ladies was Mrs. General Buckner, and the
baby was the next Governors son and heir.
N.@~-- a. -
baby was greeted in the most enthusiastic
manner.
'Hurrah for Betty and the baby"
yelled some. Bring the baby down here
and let Us see him." shouted Others. The
shouts continued for some time, but the
baby was soon hidden in one of the boxes.
The convention effected a permanent or
ganization by electing Hon. John G.. Car
Isle permanent chairman.
Mr.. Carlisle was roundly cheered, and on
being escarted to the chair, after express
ing his thanks for the honor of presiding
over the convention and referring to the
reorganization of the Kentucky Demo-
cratic party in 1866 said:
For the first time in q quarter of a
century the responsibilities of the Govern
ment are on the Democratic party, and it
must meet them IN spirit of broad aud
unselfish patriotism. If it ever had preju-
OlCSs, IL 1OIBct IL IL ever lclb
the spirit of faction, 1t must silence it. If
it is embarrassed by differences of opinion
among its own members, it must reconcile
them, if possible, but If that can
not be done, it must deliberately
pronounce the judgment of the majority
on all vital questions, and let each man go
his own way and choose his own political
associates. This proscribes nobody, coerces
nobody, but ii bases party organization on
principle and makes party action honest
and respectable. This is not an appropriate
time or place for an elaborate discussion OF
political questions, and shall not attem Ut
it. That will be done during the progress
of the caneass you are now about to inaugu-
rate, and hope it may be in my power to
take an humble part in it, not as a candi-
date for any Office directly or indirectly at
the disposal of the people, but simply as a
Democrat, profoundly convinced that the
best interests OF the State and the whole
country will be promoted by the combined
ascendency OF Democratic principles and
Democratic methods. Great applause. ]
believe, gentlemen, that a large
majority of the people of the
United States are now looking to
the Democratic party to protect them and
their property from the encroachments
and spoliations of what is called fraternal
government on the one hand and from the
threatened depredations of agrarianism on
the other. 1t is the only practical organi.
Zation that has witnessed and helped to
protect the wonderful growth and pros
perity of the country during the whole
century Of the Governments existence.